QUEENSLAND: A former Cooloola councillor and the founder of Gympie gun shop Owen Guns has failed in an appeal to the High Court on constitutional grounds after a tribunal fined him for inciting hatred against homosexuals.

The controversial political career of Bernard Gaynor seems to have been short-lived with the one-time potential Katter’s Australia Party (KAP) Senate candidate for Queensland today announcing his resignation from the party.

Outrage is spreading as Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) has found itself in yet another anti-gay controversy after not one but two candidates of the newfound fledgling party likened gay and lesbians to paedophiles who are not fit to teach children at kindergarten.

In an apparent bid to drive a wedge between members of the LGBTI community, Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has claimed HIV health promoters have sold out the community.

The LNP Government’s watering down of Queensland’s civil union laws has failed to dent same-sex couples and others from having their relationships formally and legally recognised.

Queensland Health investigated whether QAHC – the state’s peak body for HIV campaigns for gay men – was using government funds for buying real estate and funding arts events, how many staff it had on salary and whether ‘thongs’ branded for community events were “[on] the feet or on the body”.

A key promoter of mental health for Queensland’s LGBTI community has decided to move on after 25 years with Brisbane-based psychologist Paul Martin announcing he will cease his public advocacy work to instead focus on a new career challenge.

LGBT activists have slammed a meeting between Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie and Brisbane Catholic Archbishop Mark Coleridge the night before the civil union legislation was watered down to registered relationship laws.

The filmmaker behind the award-winning gay documentary The Doctor’s Wife has promised to have his head shaved this week in a bid to raise funds for the film’s sequel.

The publisher of a Brisbane LGBTI magazine has denied accusations he contributed to the defunding of Queensland’s peak LGBTI HIV organisation.

The Sydney Convicts have returned back to their home town as winners once again following another triumph, this time at the season-ending Australian Gay Rugby Championship in Brisbane over the weekend.

The ACT Labor Government has indicated it will legislate for same-sex marriage in its next term of office should it win the upcoming territory elections in a month’s time.

As debate on a state-based marriage equality bill is due to commence in Tasmania’s Parliament in a few hours times, a bill paving the way for all Tasmanian couples, including same-sex and de facto relationships, to legally access child surrogacy arrangements looks set to pass.

The Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) has blasted Queensland’s LNP Government for replacing a comprehensive campaign on HIV prevention and awareness with a single television commercial featuring the return of the Grim Reaper character from the 1980s.

A year on after controversy whipped up by Christian groups transformed a gay safe-sex ad into a national talking point, a new Rip & Roll campaign has been launched this week with posters to once again appear on billboards and bus shelters across Brisbane and Queensland.